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Sidney Coleman’s Harvard

June 14, 2016

If some crucial deadline kept you working to the wee hours of the morning in your office in the Harvard Physics buildings in the late ’60s or the ’70s, you were likely to see a silent, solitary figure wandering the halls, deep in thought. This was not the ghost of Albert Einstein (although
there was an uncanny resemblance). It was Sidney Coleman, one of the great minds and characters in particle physics and quantum field theory. With his remarkable intellect and his unique persona, Sidney put his personal stamp on theoretical physics at Harvard for decades...